A biased attitude towards election observation in times of democracy is unacceptable - V. Андрейченко

August 17, Glubokoye /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. A biased attitude towards election observation in the era of democracy is unacceptable. This opinion was expressed to a BELTA correspondent by the Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, Vladimir Andreichenko. He is taking part in a meeting of the Council of Elders and the Council of Young Specialists with the participation of the current leadership of the Glubokoye district in the renovated city House of Culture in Glubokoye. According to Vladimir Andreichenko, public observation is carried out in almost all countries. "I consider this a normal phenomenon. But the fact that this observation is not always objective, sometimes biased, is unacceptable in our era of democracy," the speaker believes. In the opinion of the Chairman of the House of Representatives, the assessment of the CIS observer mission is always objective because there are established rules of work. In addition, the people who come to Belarus are close to our country in language and mentality. "As for the observation of the OSCE ODIHR mission, there has always been and remains a biased attitude," Vladimir Andreichenko stated. He is convinced that this is primarily due to the fact that standards and approaches to election observation have not been developed. "Many countries have already expressed this point more than once. This issue has also been raised in Belarus more than once," he emphasized, citing the recent parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan as an example. "We need to sit down and develop these criteria, but coming here with pre-prepared conclusions (we know this, we've been through it) is simply unacceptable," Vladimir Andreichenko said. -0-